The Baltimore Board of Estimates on Wednesday is scheduled to consider a $150,000 settlement with a man who claimed he was dragged and beaten by police after a foot chase but never charged with a crime. Tiyon Williams was talking ...

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As part of a series of state and federal settlements reached in cases filed against Volkswagen after the company admitted last year that its “clean diesel” vehicles were designed to fool emissions tests, Volkswagen will pay about $10 billion to ...

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A federal judge Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit brought by a police trainee who lost an eye after being accidentally shot during a training exercise and refused a $200,000 settlement offered to him by Baltimore city. Raymond Gray’s attorney, A. Dwight ...

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WASHINGTON — District of Columbia and U.S. authorities have settled the final lawsuit related to the arrests of hundreds of protesters during a 2002 demonstration against the World Bank. The Washington Post reports that authorities agreed to pay $2.8 million ...

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Ocean City has agreed to pay $275,000 to a Silver Spring man who alleged city police officers used excessive force after stopping him illegally and then failed to secure him with a seat belt in a transport van. A notice ...

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Baltimore’s Board of Estimates is set to vote Wednesday on a $145,000 settlement with the family of a man fatally shot by police in 2012. The wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of George B. Wells III was settled ...

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General Motors Co. paid less than $600 million to settle claims by victims of its flawed ignition switches, a slightly smaller sum than what the automaker told investors it expected to pay, after a 20-month-long compensation process led by Kenneth ...

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Education Management Corp., the second-largest U.S. for-profit college operator, agreed to settle whistleblower lawsuits in which it’s accused of illegal recruiting practices for $95.5 million, the largest such accord in American history, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said. The company ...

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Baltimore’s Board of Estimates is scheduled to consider a $28,000 settlement with a woman who alleged she was struck during a police-involved crash. Donna Brown claims she “sustained serious permanent injuries” following a collision near the intersection of North Avenue ...

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The Baltimore City Board of Estimates is scheduled to consider two police brutality settlements Wednesday totaling $220,000, the first settlements before the board since the $6.4 million agreement with the family of Freddie Gray. The settlements stem from incidents in ...

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